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Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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post #14

I do not condone the attacks that may be occurring. However, if you are trying to get someone's attention- it makes more sense to get the attention of the students rather than the administration. Today's MIT students are tomorrow's death-ray designers, robot-maintainers, and policy makers. They are tomorrow's administration- and they may not have made up their minds yet about ethical issues of intellectual property o…

MIT politics is, and has long been, that the students of today hate the administration of today. This might be correlated to the number of folks in the MIT administration who are not MIT alums, incidentally. Fix that, and everything else follows.

Who do you think should fix it if not the MIT students?

Why don't they go and physically remove administration from the MIT and never let it back?

It seems impossibly unlawful when I write this but you know, there were times when students had a political agendas and they used to run over campuses, barricade them and battle the police. And now it's like "we're gonna hate them for life and not do a thing".

I understand I'm telling other people what to do but then again, the OP tells other people what to do[n't].

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.

Really? I browse with NoScript and JS turned off, and it worked just fine for me. (Which is more than can be said for most blogspot posts, e.g., by Google, which I always find frustrating.)

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.

Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head

Most of the internet is unambiguously better with js off.

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.

Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head

Is there a possible way to use the internet without?

At least it is my experience, that without NoScript any given site will either take half an hour to load, or have some annoying ads, as an overlay over the content. ( Not to mention videos which start to play automatically, flash banners and sound effects.) Seriously I have no problem with an advertisement which just displays a picture or text. But any possible use of JS in a ad is a use I do not want.

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

#36

Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.

Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head

Yep.

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/yahoo-mail-cross-site-scri...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Users-Accounts-Still-No...

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

#37

Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.

Really? I browse with NoScript and JS turned off, and it worked just fine for me. (Which is more than can be said for most blogspot posts, e.g., by Google, which I always find frustrating.)

Maybe you already had blogger whitelisted?

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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post #10

I don't go to MIT, but a commenter on a previous article about this said that MIT's network had been having trouble for weeks. That is, before the Aaron Swartz tragedy. Is there some other reason why someone would be DDOS'ing MIT?

I'm guessing that a non trivial number of people heard about it and decided to join the attack, regardless of whether or not it was actually an attack to begin with.

That actually does sound likely, knowing the internet.

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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post #26
post #10

I don't go to MIT, but a commenter on a previous article about this said that MIT's network had been having trouble for weeks. That is, before the Aaron Swartz tragedy. Is there some other reason why someone would be DDOS'ing MIT?

That was me, I think, and I believe we now know that they are uncorrelated (although I'm not paying as much attention to all of this as I should). If I recall correctly, the symptoms from a few weeks ago were with the ISPs MIT connects to, not internal to MIT's own network.

Ah, I see. Thank you.
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